Patrick Kane (right) lifts the puck into the net over Wild goalie Ilya Bryzgalov in overtime to send Chicago on to the next round.

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Patrick Kane (right) lifts the puck into the net over Wild goalie...

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The Chicago Blackhawks' Kris Versteeg (23) celebrates with teammates after scoring the first goal of the game against the Minnesota Wild in Game 6 of a Western Conference semifinal at Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul, Minn., on Tuesday, May 13, 2014. (Carlos Gonzalez/Minneapolis Star Tribune/MCT)

Kris Versteeg scored for Chicago at 1:58 of the first period and Corey Crawford came up with tough save after tough save among his 34 stops for the Blackhawks, who advanced to the conference finals to meet Anaheim or Los Angeles. Anaheim leads that series 3-2, and Game 6 is Wednesday night in Los Angeles.

Erik Haula scored and Ilya Bryzgalov stopped 25 shots for the Wild, who pushed a frenetic pace for much of the night but missed prime chances to score.

They paid for it in the extra period, when a simple dump-in by Brent Seabrook took an unusual bounce back toward the slot. The puck slid past Peter Regin but not Kane, who deked once and flipped it into the net.

"That was a lucky bounce, how it came right to me in the slot," Kane said. "I just tried to drive hard to the net and hope it came to me. I made a fake, tried to put it in the net and probably put it a little higher than I wanted to.

"But I was happy to see it go in."

Booed as they left the ice after the first period at home in Game 5, the defending Stanley Cup champion Blackhawks rebounded on the road.

Since 2009, the first postseason appearance for Kane and co-star Jonathan Toews, the Blackhawks are 14-0 in Games 5 and 6 of playoff series that were tied after Game 4. They're also 12-2 in games with a chance to win a series, including 6-1 on the road.

The Blackhawks' stifling penalty kill unit, continuing to give the Wild no space to shoot, fended off two more power plays in the third period to drop the Wild to 2-for-20 in the series.

"On the road, this was probably one of my bigger games of the playoffs so far," Crawford said. "This team seems to enjoy that position where we have a chance to eliminate and move on to the next series. We had a chance to do that and we stuck with it all game."

Rangers 2, Penguins 1:

Goalie Henrik Lundqvist set an NHL record with his fifth straight Game 7 victory, making 35 saves to lift visiting New York into the Eastern Conference finals. ... Brian Boyle and Brad Richards scored for the Rangers, who rallied from a 3-1 series deficit for the first time in the franchise's 88-year history. ... The Rangers did it behind Lundqvist, who stopped 102 of the final 105 shots he faced over the final three games. ... New York will play the winner of the Boston-Montreal series in the conference finals. Game 7 in that series is Wednesday night in Boston. ... Jussi Jokinen scored his team-high seventh goal of the postseason for Pittsburgh, which was outscored 10-3 over the final three games. ... The Penguins fell to 2-7 all time at home in Game 7s, including three such losses in the past four seasons. ... Pittsburgh's Sidney Crosby, who led the league in scoring and is an MVP finalist, managed just one goal in 13 playoff games.